The End of the Machine Ageby Colin Williams and Tim WatsonWe will fail to comprehend the essential nature of the cyber domain if we continue to think of it as a technical or engineering system.Download Article (PDF)

Challenges To A Trustworthy Cyber Ecosystemsby Ian Bryant and Jasvinder MahrraIt is vital that intrinsic challenges to cyberspace—and software—are recognised and treated such that a trustworthy cyber ecosystem can be formed.Download Article (PDF)

Systems Thinking for a Secure Digital Worldby William D. MillerWe must learn to think systemically to seek advantage, or at least maintain parity over adversarial threats, as our infrastructure becomes more complexly integrated.Download Article (PDF)

Identifying Cyber Ecosystem Security Capabilitiesby Peter M. Fonash, Ph.D.Strengthening the security and resilience of the cyber ecosystem requires reducing the number of vulnerabilities and the ability to automatically mitigate attack methodologies.Download Article (PDF)

Defining Proactive Software Assurance Practices for Healthier Cyber Ecosystemsby Brian Badillo and Marc AbramsDistributed security in cyberspace can be performed using many real-time components, from intrusion detection systems to incident management systems. However, these components are reactive rather than proactive.Download Article (PDF)

Recovery-based Resilient Cyber Ecosystemby Ajay Nagarajan and Arun SoodIntrusion tolerance is an approach that treats intrusions as inevitable and shifts the focus from detection and prevention to containing losses and rapid recovery.Download Article (PDF)

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